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By Barry Boyce,
CyclingRevealed Historian |
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| Date |
Race |
Winner |
Distance |
| March 19, 1951 |
Milan-San Remo |
Louison Bobet (Fra) |
282 km |
| April 1, 1951 |
Tour of Flanders |
Fiorenzo Magni (Ita)
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274 km |
| April 8, 1951 |
Paris-Roubaix |
Antonio Bevilacqua (Ita) |
247 km |
| April 22, 1951 |
Liege-Bastogne-Liege |
Ferdi Kubler (Sui)
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211 km |
| May 19-June 10, 1951 |
Giro d'Italia |
Fiorenzo Magni (Ita) |
20 Stages
4,153 km |
| July 4-29, 1951 |
Tour de France |
Hugo Koblet (Sui) |
24 Stages,
4,692 km |
| Not Held |
Vuelta a Espana |
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| September 2, 1951 |
World
Championships |
Ferdi Kubler (Sui) |
Varese, Italy 284 km |
| October 21, 1951 |
Giro
di Lombardia |
Louison Bobet (Fra) |
Milan-Milan,
226 km |
• Tour de France - While wearing Holland's first ever Maillot Jaune (race leader's Yellow Jersey), Wim Van Est lost control descending the Col d'Aubisque. Van Est fell 75 meters down a ravine and landed on a ledge. His team strung together spare tires as a rope to pull Van Est to safety. As race leader he abandoned the Tour.
• Rock & Roll - Cleveland disc jockey, Alan Freed , began playing rhythm and blues records. The R&B sound, labeled “race music” by his mostly white audience, swept the nation and the world. Freed tapped a 1947 Wild Bill Moore song “We're Gonna Rock, We're Gonna Roll” to create the phenomenon of Rock & Roll.
• USA - United Nations headquarters were officially opened in New York City.
• TV - I Love Lucy , starring Lucille Ball, Desi Arnes, Vivian Vance, and William Frawley, debuted on CBS.
• Great Britain - Winston Churchill became Prime Minister.
Notable Deaths - Sinclair Lewis, 1885-195, died in Rome of heart disease. He was the first American author to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930.
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